From 70b5549473edfedba6c2af70e6b8e446f7c4e92b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierre Fenoll <pierrefenoll@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 14:48:41 +0200
Subject: Document how atoms are ordered

---
 system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml')

diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml
index 94e40dd077..7eaa575f80 100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml
@@ -573,6 +573,8 @@ number &lt; atom &lt; reference &lt; fun &lt; port &lt; pid &lt; tuple &lt; map
     <p>Maps are ordered by size, two maps with the same size are compared by keys in
         ascending term order and then by values in key order.
         In maps key order integers types are considered less than floats types.
+    </p>
+    <p>Atoms are compared using their string value, character by character.
     </p>
       <p>When comparing an integer to a float, the term with the lesser
       precision is converted into the type of the other term, unless the
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